Since the Heir believes that the wiretapping crisis is less about substantive privacy issues and more about the personality cult of Edward Snowden, he has a theory about what happened to Ed Snowden when he was supposed to board a flight from Moscow to Cuba.  Think of that scene in Silver Streak where Richard Pryor was able to sneak Gene Wilder back onto the train by disguising him as a bruthuh.  That's how Ed Snowden was able to evade arrest.

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The Business Theories The Bachelor Has Regarding The Availability Of Grape Soda. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

Heir really likes looking at the train videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOQfcFEwiJs&feature=youtube_gdata_player, on his faux book enclosed tablet in his club chair.  He really likes the Southern Pacific style countryside in this and similar videos, with the general stores and cottage industries and the character-weedy slopes next to the tracks.  It's a good escape from the Responsibility Age atmosphere of surrounding Blands Township with its sprawled condos and strip malls and stuff.  Heir may get me the Mentor to post more links, for your viewing pleasure.

Main Team One might be able to stave off continuing their losses on the road.  They just hit a three run homer, 3-0 thus far about the third inning or so (Now they batted in, it's 4-0).  We'll see how well the rest of the game goes against Hollywood Hills Team.

We're working on getting a new episode out on audio.  We're not sure when that'll be.  Of course we'll announce.

Heir looked at all that stuff about Open Sky, and he figures it's mainly water under the bridge in terms of threats of scanner obsolescence.  He really likes the RS Pro-160 because it gets better band coverage than the Uniden 75XLT, plus most of the major trunking services.  The Uniden is simpler and more robust, but the Heir also likes the chrome finish on the 160, a small but sure nod toward the second pillar.  Uniden is a lot more plain, so it's not a superficial consideration.  Heir's 80% confident that he'll be able to get most of the NFM channels on the 160 even though the 160 manual is vague in terms of whether it supports NFM.  He sees it for $120 on Amazon, just $20 more than the 75XLT.  In the meantime he has the scanning web site http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/?rl=rr to whet his scanning appetite, though it's not the same as the real thing, he doesn't think.

As an extension to the music/audio Bachelor pillar, Heir's looking at getting a radio scanner for the Swank Lounge household.  The site www.radioreference.com/‎ was very helpful in indicating which frequencies are used in Bachelor Borough, neighboring Blands Township and the rest of the surrounding counties.  However, the Heir needs to know whether most scanners allow you, for example, to scan through just one bank's worth of frequencies, because he wants to designate one bank per related set of frequencies.  Like he would have a Fire/EMS bank, a limited cop bank, a railroad bank and each major business he saw in the freqs list would have its own bank.  That is, to start.  Also, he's attracted to those scanners that use a designated top knob for maximum control of the unit, rather than just futz with buttons all the time.  He wants to make it as akin to the tuning elegance of classic radio as possible.  Though it may be pushing it, he would like very much  to get an adequate scanner for $50, and no more than $80.  If he has to spend around $100, he'll do it, though he will absolutely not spend $400-$500.  All the time he's telling me the Mentor about prices, he's going "boing-oing-oing-oing!!"  (Audible sticker shock).  I remind him that the upper end scanners are likely those that try to beat trunking encryption of the cop freqs, though in the long run that will be a fool's errand.  Heir saw a YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdvCUfLtjuo of a guy being able to get decent railroad transmissions on a Radio Shack he got used for $30-$50, a real bargain for him, Radio Shack as a scanner brand often sneered at on the Radio Reference forums as below quality.  So there's probably room for savings for the Heir.  He had one or two other features he had in mind on his wish list, but he forgot what those were offhand.  He will want a 1/8" audio jack so he can plug it into the Swank Lounge's FM transmitter, so he can hear the transmissions on our audio sets.  He'll be doing stuff and having an audio set sitting on a shelf giving him transmissions of a train operator making sure his train is literally on the right track.

Here's an interesting radio from the relatively recent past: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Shack-Multiband-Portable-Radio-Model12-456-in-box-broken-antenna-/251284044389?pt=US_Portable_AM_FM_Radios&hash=item3a81b23a65.  Radio Shack also stocks replacement antennas, BTW, and most of them appear standard.  They did warn about not getting the TV bands, which once again is too bad.  The Bachelor's favorite multiband at the swank lounge, not pictured at the site though, also gets the now pointless TV bands.  If the Heir doesn't find a converter antenna topper soon, he's thinking that it'd be cool if the two bands could be swapped for bands not on their radio.  Like one TV band can be swapped out for CB, and the other can be swapped out for the 145+ MHz vhf band.  Sure there may not always be signals, but we certainly would get more than on the TV bands which only get ghosts of FM stations, real trashy commercial ones too.

We're concerned about the actuary report that estimates that Social Security will run out in the year 2033.  That's actually two years before the Heir is scheduled to retire (by that time he'll be the mentor, I will be gone, and he will have his own heir).  However, the Heir's not concerned about whether the report means he'll spend his golden years in poverty, as much as the fact that in the next couple of weeks the political vanillas will try to use the report as an excuse as to why the Heir has to give them a moralistic blank check, which they anticipate as disincentivizing their obligation to uphold the pro-sex ideology.  How do they know they have such an obligation?  It's because we in the Bachelor have been telling them so for exactly seven years as of this month of June.